Psalms 70:2
Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In justitia tua libera me, et eripe me : inclina ad me aurem tuam, et salva me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ῥῦσαί με καὶ ἐξελοῦ με, κλῖνον πρὸς μὲ τὸ οὖς σου καὶ σῶσόν με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:2
- בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֗ תַּצִּילֵ֥נִי וּֽתְפַלְּטֵ֑נִי הַטֵּֽה אֵלַ֥י אָ֝זְנְךָ֗ וְהוֹשִׁיעֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Justice. Or mercy, Psalm xxx. 1. I have not injured Absalom, &c. (Calmet)
God avengeth the injuries done to his servants. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
4. “In Thine own righteousness deliver me, and save me” ( ver. 2 ). Not in mine own, but in Thine own: for if in mine own, I shall be one of those whereof he saith, “Being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and their own righteousness willing to establish, to the righteousness of God they were not made subject.” Therefore, “in Thine own righteousness,” not in mine. For mine is what? Iniquity hath gone before. And when I shall be righteous, Thine own righteousness it will be: for by righteousness given to me by Thee I shall be righteous; and it shall be so mine, as that it be Thine, that is, given to me by Thee. For I believe on Him that justifieth an ungodly man, so that my faith is counted for righteousness. …